Mayra Santos-Febres’s new novel Antes que llegue la luz (Planeta, 2021) is now available. Description: Puerto Rico, 2017. Just a week after power has been restored, the news warns of the arrival of a second hurricane, stronger than the last. Although prone to imprecision and exaggeration, the meteorological reports appear to be accurate this time.…
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University of Puerto Rico to Create New Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Program
[Many thanks to Michael O’Neal (Society for Caribbean Studies) for bringing this item to our attention.]
Latino Rebels reports that, earlier this month, the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus announced that it will create a new program of Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies, thanks in part to a $700,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [. . .].
“This grant will support the advancement of the Afro-Descendant and Racial Studies Program from the College of General Studies at the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico. We are honored by this accomplishment as this generous award demonstrates the Mellon Foundation’s commitment to our program,” the January 11 release said.
Official World Record – A Decade of Record Breaking Worldwide
Official World Record reaches its first 10 years of existence with thousands of registered trademarks. The Spanish entity competes with Guinness in the accreditation of records of extreme sportsmen.
Ten years ago, in Vic, Barcelona, a group of Catalan businessmen asked themselves how to give visibility to some brands that, due to the lack of resources, were not in any official register. It was this interrogate that led them to create an NGO that aimed to accredit brands in all disciplines and that had a social and cultural value. To finance these records, other individuals, entities and companies would need to be encouraged to register their trademarks with this entity. Thus
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Official World Record reaches its first 10 years of existence with thousands of registered trademarks. The Spanish entity competes with Guinness in the accreditation of records of extreme sportsmen.
Ten years ago, in Vic, Barcelona, a group of Catalan businessmen asked themselves how to give visibility to some brands that, due to the lack of resources, were not in any official register. It was this interrogate that led them to create an NGO that aimed to accredit brands in all disciplines and that had a social and cultural value. To finance these records, other individuals, entities and companies would need to be encouraged to register their trademarks with this entity. Thus